Shot on 28 March 1946: General Leclerc, commander of French forces in Indo-China, steps out of a staff car and is introduced to Lieutenant-Colonel Roe, the commander of the Punjabi ...
A modern prison in Malaya is not only a place of punishment but of rehabilitation. Through the eyes of a man on a long-term sentence, the film shows how once the discipline of prison life has been accepted, a man can earn privileges and ...
START 10:15:15 An African man demonstrates how to start a fire, using a straight wooden stick and a flat section of wood similar in size and shape to a six inch ruler in which three semi-circular indentations have been made. Heat created by the ...
Amateur film shot by British Army Kinema Unit operator Sergeant Roy Lister records scenes of local life in Colombo, Gordon Gardens, fire fighters tackling an oil conflagration in the docks [either Colombo or Trincomalee, and caused by a spark from an ...
RAF airmen, stationed at Kai Tak aerodrome, enjoy a day off work in Hong Kong.
Landscape view of Kai Tak aerodrome panning to an old people's ...
Unedited rushes.
Visit to Brunei on the north coast of Borneo with its large oilfield. Tourist attractions.
General views of Gondar, Ethiopia, including the fort with prisoners and Ras Seyoum's castle. Lieutenant-General Wetherall, Acting GOC East Africa with Major General Foulkes, GOC 12th African Division, ...
British and Indian troops in action around Cheren (Keren), Eritrea.
Troops load up trucks with supplies for the front line on a portion of railway captured from the ...
Shots from Indian Film Unit. Capture of Massawa, Eritrea. Indian troops, Italian prisoners. Garwali Regiment. Free French Commander. General Heath watches operations. Sunken vessel in harbour.
RAF photo-reconnaissance Mosquito aircraft make an accidental flight over Mount Everest and Makalu in the Himalayan mountain range.
Aircrew ...
Tour round a market place in Accra, made from COI material taken in the Gold Coast.
Japanese Lieutenant-Colonel Kazuo Kogi is taken to the site of a massacre in Hong Kong in 1943 in which he is accused of being involved.
Prison ...
An account of the contribution made by the Imperial Tobacco Company towards raising the living standards of many thousands of Africans in the Rhodesias and Nyasaland (now Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi).
Introduced as 'a story about the ...
How the Govt. of Singapore has set about the gigantic problem of housing Hong ko ng's swelling population.
Achievement in Hong Kong was made in 1958 by the production company Leander Films for the British government’s Central ...Gives a picture of the daily life of men and women native students at Achimota College on the Gold Coast, with a commentary written and spoken by Dr. Julian Huxley.
The work of the British Red Cross at home and at its overseas branches in Hong Kong, Kenya and Uganda.
Air Marshal Garrod, acting Allied Air Commander-in-Chief, visits RAF squadrons at forward airstrips at Tabingaung and Onbauk, Burma.
Air ...
British troops, probably of 1st Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers, take up positions at Kabo Weir on the Mu River in Burma and mount a patrol.
Men ...
RAF and US Army Air Force (USAAF) operations at and around Meiktila following its capture by British forces.
Bomb damage to buildings and ...
I. "Grand Imperial military revue." Emperor Hirohito on horseback takes salute at parade of Imperial forces (at Yoyoki ?) on 8 January. Prodigious successes in first month of war have led to collapse of Anglo-American aspirations in East Asia. ...
I. "Vision of Peace in the Philippines." Natives on Mindanao work on a hemp plantation, planted two years ago by Japanese settlers. Palms are cut, dried, bound in bales and weighed. People of Asia have for generations suffered under the domination ...
TV coverage of Aden in 1959.
The violence against the British presence in Aden and the future of the South Arabian Federation. Llew Gardner spoke to the Secretary-General of the South Arabian League in Aden and Robert Kee spoke to Duncan Sandys and ...
The history of Aden and its importance now as a port and oil refinery. Intended for secondary schools.
TV Coverage of Aden. Prefer to be British? Shots of Ports and Ships.
DOCUMENTARY. A report on the political situation in Aden and the role of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Includes an interview with Lt. Col. Colin Campbell Mitchell.
Rediffusion logo (00:04). Opening ...
Unedited colour film of Royal Marine Commandos in four jeeps and two trucks on patrol in a rocky arid district surrounded by mountains.
Two Marines sit perched on a cliff while the camera pans towards the mountains ...
Reel of rushes of 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on patrol in Aden during the Emergency (with live sound during rough searching of Arab suspects), and of mute rushes of British soldiers on patrol, unarmed, in the peaceful British ...
British forces deliver supplies to inhabitants of Perim Island.
British Army unit in Bedford trucks, on training patrol in Western Aden Protectorate, takes time off to deliver Christmas gifts to the impoverished ...
News report on the 1st Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on security operations in the Crater district of Aden during the Aden Emergency.
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Titling includes "A BBC Television Film. Hanford. BBC. D.5607/5608. Hard News. ( ...
Admiral W N Fechteler USN visits Malta, November 26 1953.
Admiral Fechteler emerges from Skymaster to be welcomed by Admiral and Lady Mountbatten. He takes salute and inspects Guard of Honour ...
Rear-Admiral Harcourt inspects RAF detachment and chats with Wing Commander and Air Commodore. The Admiral then walks across the grass field to inspect crews fell in before their Spitfire aircraft - the nearest ...
Lord Mountbatten visits Kuala Lumpur; Singapore, where he is seen with the Prime Minister (Lee Kuan Yew) and aboard a hovercraft; Borneo, where he inspects the Indonesian border installations; Bangkok; Hong Kong, where he sees the naval and RAF bases ...
Rear-Admiral Servaes and Captain Dick of HMS Belfast attend a service of thanksgiving in cathedral at Shanghai. The Admiral then visits the British internees at the Sacred Heart Hospital - a man demonstrates a ...
I. Rear-Admiral Servaes pays a visit to Ash Camp, the wartime internment area for British and Allied subjects in Shanghai. The Admiral, accompanied by a Lieutenant-Commander RNVR and a marine officer, shakes ...
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham (Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Mediterranean) holds his first Area Commanders' meeting at HAFMED, Malta.
Various Area Commanders and other Chiefs of Staff arrive, ...
Air-to-ground shots of Coral Sea and Owen Stanley mountain range, as aircraft flies from Brisbane to Ward's airstrip at Port Moresby (New Guinea) and then to Dobdura airfield. Australians and Americans deplane. US First Cavalry Division forms up at ...
Unedited rushes. Filmed in Tobruk, the Western Desert and West Africa.
Includes Wellington material in Tobruk and Hurricanes in West Africa.
As troops of 5th Indian Division ...
In northern Burma, probably in the vicinity of the Shweli river north of Myitson, troops of 2nd Battalion The Buffs advance through jungle, Major- ...
Scenes of operations from forward airstrips near Mandalay, Burma, and scenes of bomb damage to buildings and infrastructure around the city.
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Set in Africa just after the Boer war, tells of the journey of four men into the African bush, in search of hidden diamonds.
Indian Engineers of the Bengal Sappers and Miners are seen at work clearing Japanese aerial bombs used as mines on the road to Rangoon, capital of Burma ...
A low-altitude aerial survey of bomb damage in and around Maymyo (now Pyin U Lwin), Burma.
Low altitude (c.100-ft) air-to-ground footage of ...
Aerial views showing DUKW amphibious trucks on the River Chindwin in Burma.
Aerial views over the Chindwin; various meanders and sandbars. View of ...
Aerial views of jungle terrain filmed from one of the helicopters of 848 Squadron.
Aerial views of jungle-covered hills. The tops of the ridges are obscured by a dense cloud layer which the ...
Aerial shots over the Falklands coastal region; badly damaged buildings.
(Reel 1) Shots show Falklands Sound and other areas from the air. Signs of the recent battle are just about evident (the ...
